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# 1  
Old 10-20-2012
Filename collision during backup
Hi,

I am trying to backup all *.tar files from a legacy Linux to a portable harddrive.

find . -name "*.tar" -exec cp {} /media/mypassport/backup \;

I found that there are files with the same filenames and they were overwritten
in the destination folder. They are coming from different directories.

To avoid filename collision, could you advise me how to backup and preserve the directory structure?

Thanks,
C. H.
# 2  
Old 10-20-2012
This is probably the easiest:

Code:
find . -name "*.tar" | while read f
do
    td=/media/mypassport/backup/${f%/*}     # target directory  
    echo mkdir -p $td                       # remove echo to create and copy files
    echo cp $f  $td/
done

Assuming kshell or bash. Remove the 'echo' from each of the mkdir/cp command lines after you verify that the commands look good.
# 3  
Old 10-20-2012
Solution by creating file with a different name:-
Code:
 
COUNTER=0
for file in `find . -name "*.tar"`
do
        FNAME=`echo ${file} | awk -F"/" ' { print $NF } '`
        if [ -f /media/mypassport/backup/{FNAME} ]
        then
                COUNTER=`expr ${COUNTER} + 1`
                FNAME=`echo ${FNAME} | sed 's/\.tar//g'`
                cp ${file} /media/mypassport/backup/${FNAME}_${COUNTER}.tar
        else
                cp ${file} /media/mypassport/backup/${FNAME}
        fi
done

Last edited by Yoda; 10-20-2012 at 05:59 PM..
# 4  
Old 10-20-2012
Code:
find . -name '*.tar' | pax -rw /media/mypassport/backup

Regards,
Alister
# 5  
Old 10-21-2012
Thank you for your advice. Forgive my ignorance:
Hi Alister,

1. What are the differences between par and cp? Was any compression applied?
2. Will the directory structure be preserved?
3. How about: find . -name '*.tar' | pax -w /media/mypassport/backup
4. Does it only work for *.tar files? How about *.jar or *.txt files?

Thanks,
C. H.
 
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